Within Temptation Jillian Black Symphony
Boris Pasternak has Yurii say in Doctor Zhivago, "Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike... Our nervous system isn't just fiction, it's part of our physical body, and it can't be forever violated with impunity."
The over-attribution of hypocrisy, however, could lead to excessive tolerance of deceit and destructive behavior.
The word is an amalgam of the Greek prefix hypo-, meaning "under", and the verb krinein, meaning "to sift or decide". Thus the original meaning implied a deficiency in the ability to sift or decide. This deficiency, as it pertains to one's own beliefs and feelings, informs the word's contemporary meaning.
Hypocriticism is criticism by somebody (a hypocrite) who criticizes another but does the same as the person they are criticizing...
However there is
a distinction between critique and criticism:
Critique is an accepted and established process of orderly scholarly and public debate.
It has also meaning an opposite opinion or suggestion or argument.
Criticism is the judgement of the merits and faults of the work or actions of an individual or group by another.
Hypercriticism is a feature of certain personality types and is colloquially known as nitpicking or nagging. Nitpicking is minute, trivial, unnecessary, and unjustified criticism or faultfinding. Nagging is scolding, complaining, or constantly finding fault.
There can be tension between friendly support and useful criticism. Useful criticism is a practical part of constructive criticism.
Otherwise a person is intending to down-lift the other person materially, morally, emotionally or spiritually. For high probability in succeeding compassionate criticism, the critic has to be in some kind of healthy personal relationship ...
